# The Magnet 0001

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magnet The Magnet was a United Kingdom weekly boys' story paper published by Amalgamated Press. It ran from 1908 to 1940, publishing a total of 1,683 issues. The Magnet border Magnet Number 1, 1908 Editor Charles Maurice Down (1919–1940) Illustrator C. H. Chapman (1911–1940) Staff writers Charles Hamilton Frequency Weekly Publisher Amalgamated Press First issue 1908 Final issue Number 1940 1,683 Country United Kingdom Each issue contained a long school story about the boys of Greyfriars School, a fictional public school located somewhere in Kent, and were written under the pen-name of "Frank Richards." The most famous Greyfriars character was Billy Bunter, of the Remove. The vast majority of the stories were written by author Charles Hamilton, although substitute writers were sometimes used. (Stanley James Rossiter-Shepherd wrote some substitute stories from 1921-1925.)\[1\] Most issues of The Magnet also included a shorter serial story (a variety of detective, scouting, and adventure yarns were featured), and many issues also included a newspaper ostensibly produced by the characters themselves and called the Greyfriars Herald. These parts of the paper were not written by Charles Hamilton. The stories began in 1908, before the First World War, and continued through the privations of that war and the Great Depression of the 1930s that followed. The Magnet was aimed primarily at working-class boys who would never go to a public school…

- Kind: Magazine
- Series: The Magnet
- Year: 1908
- By: Frank Richards
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/magnet-0001-a)
- Licence or status: Public Domain Mark 1.0 (as the archive states it)
- Who can read it: Kids profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says)

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